Mark 7:13
making the word of God of no effect by your tradition, which you have delivered; and many things like these you do.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
12you no longer suffer him to do any thing for his father or mother,
14And he called the whole multitude to him, and said to them: Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Cross References
Matthew 5:17Think not that I have come to make the law or the prophets of no effect. I have not come to make them of no effect, but to give them their full efficiency.
Mark 7:3(for the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not, unless they wash their hands carefully, because they hold the tradition of the elders:
Galatians 5:21envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.
Matthew Henry on Mark 7:2-24
The Traditions of the Elders; The Worst Defilement from Within. 1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they… Read the whole commentary →